How to run a shoddy power show and earn a 'profit'

Haryana Vidyut Prasaran Nigam Limited (HVPNL) has earned over Rs 1,000 crore from Gurgaon but when it comes to building power infrastructure in the city it appears the power utilities couldn't care less.

| TNN | Apr 17, 2013, 01.09 AM IST

GURGAON: HaryanaVidyutPrasaranNigam Limited (HVPNL) has earned over Rs 1,000 crore from Gurgaon but when it comes to building power infrastructure in the city it appears the power utilities couldn't care less.

The CAG has made scathing observations on the delay in the completion of an ambitious power infrastructure project exclusively earmarked for Gurgaon. TOI accessed the CAG report in which the power utility firms and discoms have been pulled up for the delay in mega projects.

The work on connecting power lines from Daultabad to Gurgaon is running at least one year behind schedule. The discom had planned a direct exclusive power line from Indira Gandhi Super Thermal Power project in Jhajjar via Daultabad.

The project was conceived in 2008 but still nowhere near completion. The CAG report has laid threadbare how inefficiently the HVPNL and discoms are in completing the project that could have benefited Gurgaon. According to the CAG, the plant suffers from technical mismatch, which is delaying its optimal utilization.

The plant has three units, 500MW each, which should have been synchronized before 2011 but it got delayed by over 300 days, that is, nearly a year. This in turn has severely impacted the mega plan of connecting the Jhajjar plant directly to Gurgaon through Daultabad.

The project, thanks to the incompetence of DHBVN, now is in complete disarray.

For the project the DHBVN had planned to construct a 400kV substation in Daultabad, connect it through power lines from Jhajjar and then connect the other end of the 400kV power line in Daultabad to Gurgaon.

The substation should have been commissioned in April 2010 but it was completed in March 2011, the construction work of the 400kV line from the plant to Daultabad was to be completed in March 2010 but got completed in December 2010.

The most crucial component of the project of connecting the power supply line (400kV) link from Daultabad to Sector 72 in Gurgaon has missed its January 2011 deadline. As per the CAG report, the project ws incomplete as of December 2012.

Similarly, Rajiv Gandhi Thermal Power Plant at Hisar, construction of substation and several power supply lines to handle 400kV substations missed their deadline by over 100 days to 600 days. The CAG has also observed that construction of a substation has to be done after prior technical and financial checks and feasibility study of the area.

The CAG stated that at Batta, two substations were to be constructed but the discoms had not planned any underlying transmission system before awarding the contract. One 220kV substation and linked lines had been commissioned but till September 2012 were not in use.

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